Jonathan Swift Quotes About School

Quotes about: School

• 'T is an old maxim in the schools, That flattery 's the food of fools; Yet now and then your men of wit Will condescend to take a bit.

  Jonathan Swift

  School, Men, Cooking

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols (1801). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin”, p.121

• Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

  Jonathan Swift

  Philosophy, School, Lumber

  'Ode to Sir W. Temple' (1692)

• Whoe'er excels in what we prize,
  Appears a hero in our eyes;
  Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,
  Will have the teacher in her thought.
  . . . .
  A blockhead with melodious voice,
  In boarding-schools may have his choice.

  Jonathan Swift

  Girl, Teacher, Teaching

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.681

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